Maher Said Email & Phone Number

Evanston, Il, Us

Mountain View, California, United States

Mountain View, California, United States

• Provide comprehensive product intelligence to assist go-to-market efforts, with broad knowledge of culture and market in US and international markets.• Lead and direct programming efforts within SCOPE and Market Intelligence, creating low overhead simulation and analytics software for assessing operations and success of UAM across markets.• Leverage expertise in behavioral analysis, choice modeling and transportation analytics to understand customer behavior and market trends, incorporating customer attributes in forecasting travel behavior and mode preferences across different markets.• Employ experimental, survey design, data collection and data management expertise to acquire quality data to inform decision making and analytical efforts.• Automate and improve software pipelines to reduce resource and compute requirements, drastically reducing overhead costs and turn-around times, allowing for more rapid iteration and decision-making.• Apply advanced technical, statistical, mathematical and data science expertise to assist internal teams with resolving complex problems related to UAM operations and safety margins.• Perform in-depth sensitivity analyses to pinpoint optimal and pragmatic Marketing Requirements and Design Objectives, reflecting realistic business conditions and market dynamic.• Harness expertise in data science, machine learning and statistics to ingest and analyze big data, extracting prompt and meaningful insights from large complex data.• Integrate data pipelines from third-party providers into SCOPE and analytical tools, ensuring seamless inclusion of external data into analytical processes.• Prepare comprehensive reports, documentation and slide presentations to effectively communicate findings and data insights to a range of internal and external audiences, technical and non-technical.• Collaborate and coordinate with team members and other teams to align go-to-market and product intelligence initiatives with broader company goals.

Evanston, Illinois, United States

• Spearheading data collection and research efforts in collaboration with U.S. Department of Transportation to study current and future work-from-home trends as well as shifts in household spending and mobility (12 longitudinal surveys over 16 months with 1,400 respondents)• Modeling shifts in intentions to use ridehailing and taxi services due to the COVID-19 pandemic using multigroup structural equation models, contributing new insight on how mobility decision-making intentions are altered during the pandemic and pinpointing important determinants of mobility reductions• Leading 5 and collaborating on 3 other research initiatives on topics such as sentiment analysis of text exchanges in peer-to-peer shipping systems and understanding interdependencies in consideration of biking and bike-sharing

Evanston, Illinois, United States

• Taught and instructed over 350 students across 3 graduate and 3 undergraduate courses in the fields of transportation engineering, civil engineering and language (largest class size: 204 students)Highlighted courses:- Transportation Systems Planning and Management- Engineering Mechanics

Evanston, Illinois, United States

• Recipient of Global Impacts Graduate Fellowship for PhD students engaged in scholarship related to Northwestern Buffett’s mission of exploring and addressing global challenges

Beirut, Lebanon

• Led research efforts on 3 different academic research projects on pedestrian satisfaction with walking environments and impact of happiness indicators on efficiency of choice models• Modeled and processed data using difference-in-difference regressions, hybrid choice modeling and structural equation modeling (using Python, R and Stata)Highlights:- Designed a university-wide data collection plan on student commute in collaboration with Neighborhood Initiative and Office of the Registrar- Designed a 5-year data collection effort to measure shifts in pedestrian flow and satisfaction in collaboration with Neighborhood Initiative and Dept. of Architecture & Design

Beirut, Lebanon

• Taught and instructed over 250 students across 2 graduate and 6 undergraduate courses in the fields of transportation and civil engineeringHighlighted courses:- Urban Transportation Planning- Mechanics of Materials- Fluid Mechanics and Laboratory

Beirut, Lebanon

• Assisted on academic research investigating the effects of aggregate columns on weaker soils by conducting laboratory tests and experiments• Performed over 100 soil tests as part of the Soil Mechanics Lab team, including sieve analysis, Atterberg limits, direct shear and triaxial tests• Taught, trained and managed new laboratory assistants

Beirut, Lebanon

• Planned and organized bimonthly auditing sessions in coordination with the team director to assess service quality and performance across 14 different branches• Prepared timely reports with detailed audit assessment, including evaluation and relevant metrics

Beirut, Lebanon

• Led and worked on 19 different projects in transport engineering and urban planning across Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Qatar• Prepared successful proposals in English and Arabic for multiple project bids in transportation• Improved workflow and submission quality by promoting the use of more advanced tools and statistical software• Consulted for strategy consulting sister company, MindSETS, on designing smart city prototypes in the Arab Gulf• Conducted frequent meetings with clients to provide project updates and present ongoing outcomes

Beirut, Lebanon

• Designed highway sections in mountainous terrain in Saudi Arabia• Designed local roadways in a greenfield neighborhood project in Uganda• Assessed pavement design for an outdoor truck parking in Qatar

Phd, Transportation Systems Analysis & Planning, 4.00/4.00

Dissertation: "Robots at your doorstep? Acceptance of near-future technologies for automated parcel delivery"

Master Of Science (Ms), Transportation Systems Analysis & Planning, 4.00/4.00

Master's Project: "Q-Learning as a machine learning approach for optimizing traffic signal operations"

Master Of Engineering (Me), Civil And Environmental Engineering, 4.00/4.00

Thesis: "Modeling satisfaction with the walking environment: The case of an urban university neighborhood in a developing country"

Bachelor Of Engineering (Be), Civil And Environmental Engineering, High Distinction, 3.81/4.00

American High School & Lebanese Baccalaureate Diplomas, Distinction